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"Monet somehow managed to avoid using the color black for nearly his entire painting career"

very nice!

Often, it is more concise to speak Unix than English.

Just bought the Land of Lisp e/book combo. So far, most approachable first chapter of any LISP book I've read.

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A. To paraphrase my friends at Y-Combinator, "Make something people want, and have some guts." Life is too short to waste it on doing something that is not important. If you're in this field, you have the privilege of getting paid well to do interesting work with a variety of choices; you have the responsibility to choose wisely.

WD

build_module pyside-shiboken git://gitorious.org/pyside/pyside-shiboken.git

Yosefk - My history with Forth & stack machines (yosefk.com)

article on erlang by Joe Armstrong in the CACM

oursql is a new set of MySQL bindings for python 2.4+, including python 3.x.

This pure Python MySQL client provides a DB-API to a MySQL database by talking directly to the server via the binary client/server protocol.

a nice summary of using firebird.

PicoC is a very small C interpreter for scripting. It was originally written for scripting a UAV's on-board flight system and it's also very suitable for other robotic, embedded and non-embedded applications too.

The core C source code is around 4000 lines of code. It's not intended to be a complete implementation of ISO C but it has all the essentials. When compiled it only takes a few k of code space and is also very sparing of data space. This means it can work well in small embedded devices. It's also a fun example of how to create a very small language implementation while still keeping the code readable.

picoc has been tested on x86-32, x86-64, powerpc, arm, ultrasparc, HP-PA and blackfin processors and is easy to port to new targets.

open source implementation of the K language.

Of course, three publications is nowhere near enough to get a professorship--even at a crappy school. But, it's about enough to get a Ph.D.